#1305 Wix projects fail to appear in Solution Explorer
Installed using the "Wix-3.0.4318.0.msi" package on a machine with both VS2005 SP1 and VS2008 SP1.
If I create a new WixProject in Visual Studio 2005, the Solution Explorer "locks up" and refuses to show the solution or WixProject.
The project appears to create successfully - I receive a status message of "Creating project 'WixProject1'... project creation successful. I also see the "Project.wxs" document open on the screen.
The Solution Explorer remains blank - no right click menu or any nodes displayed. The Solution Explorer appears slightly unresponsive - it no longer has any "hover effects" on the "pin" or "x" buttons. The toolbar buttons within the Solution Explorer still work and I can undock it and move it.
If I create a C# project then add a new WixProject to the existing solution, the WindowsApplication1 project is still visible but the WixProject never appears. The behavior remains the same - the hover effects break for the pin and x buttons break.
Everything appears to work fine in Visual Studio 2008.
Discussion
Tried the latest weekly build, 3.0.4513.0. VS2005 support has gotten worse, not better:
Is Visual Studio 2005 still a supported platform for WiX v3? The project documentation says it still is. If support is being dropped, perhaps the WiX installer should be modified to not hook into VS2005?
Our development shop is still at VS2005 for the near term due to "manager paranoia", WiX support for VS2005 would definately be appreciated :-)
VS2005 is still supported. It is lower priority because the Votive developers don't use or test it regularly, but we will still try to fix any issues as they are reported.
This issue is probably another symptom of a project that needs to be updated according to instructions at http://blogs.msdn.com/jasongin/archive/2008/07/09/votive-project-platform-configurations.aspx
Thanks - your suggestion fixed the issue.